What's new in NASA and space today, Jan. 18

The fully integrated spacecraft and science instrument for NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission is seen in a clean room at the Lockheed Martin Space Systems Sunnyvale, Calif. facility. The solar arrays are deployed in the configuration they will assume when in orbit. (Lockheed Martin photo)

"The Saga of an Astronomer's Hat" is getting shared around the web by scientists today. It's a little humor found in the very bad situation of the Australian wildfire that came perilously close to destroying a world-famous observatory.